Cross-Asset Trading Infrastructure
Design and transformation of trading infrastructure across asset classes — front-to-back architecture, connectivity, and operational efficiency.
Trading infrastructure is the backbone of any financial institution that deals in markets. But for mid-tier banks, prime brokers, and wealth platforms, building and maintaining cross-asset infrastructure that is reliable, compliant, and cost-effective is a significant challenge. Enterprise solutions are priced for tier-1 institutions. Internal builds require specialist expertise that is expensive to hire permanently.
Eaton Vasey brings genuine cross-asset trading operations experience from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS. We understand how front-to-back trading infrastructure actually works — the compromises, the integration challenges, the vendor landscape, and the operational realities that no architecture diagram captures.
Our advisory and programme management services cover the full spectrum: trading system selection, front-to-back architecture design, market connectivity, middle office optimisation, and real-time risk infrastructure. We work with your teams and your vendors to design solutions that are right-sized for your business — not scaled-down versions of tier-1 architectures that don't fit.
For larger transformation programmes, our AscendencyAI partnership provides the technical build capability to implement what we design. Clients receive a single accountable partner — Eaton Vasey — for both the strategic advisory and the technical delivery.
Key Capabilities
- Front-to-back architecture design
- Trading system selection and integration
- Market connectivity and STP
- Middle office optimisation
- Real-time risk and P&L infrastructure
- Vendor assessment and technology strategy
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